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Money keeps adding up for the Salton Sea

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 31, 2007 at 10:20 am

In times of tight budgets, good news for those following the Salton Sea restoration: the pot of money for the restoration project keeps growing.

From the Imperial Valley Press Online:

The latest proposal now pushes the amount of state and federal dollars to more than $100 million, the most that has ever been spent on the sea. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is the latest politician to join the list of those announcing more money to pay for restoration of the largest land-locked body of water in California. The Democratic chairwoman of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee announced Friday there is $30 million available for restoration through the Water Resources Development Act.

That sum comes on top of a proposed $47 million in a bill sponsored by state Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny, D-San Diego. Add in another $12.5 million that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing, $13 million proposed by state lawmakers, plus $2 million from U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, D-Chula Vista, and the grand total being proposed at the state and federal levels amounts to $104.5 million.

“We’re on the cusp of exciting times,” said Rick Daniels, executive director of the Salton Sea Authority, one of the leading umbrella organizations pushing hard for the restoration to commence.

For the full text of the story from the Imperial Valley Press Online, click here.

July 31, 2007 · Filed Under Salton Sea

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